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It's one of my favorite holidays today. I am so happy it's here. Happy birthday to the United States of America! Yay for fireworks and free speech and all the rest of our rights secured in the Bill of Rights.

As we are getting ready to celebrate Independence Day, the Senate is getting ready to sell out our freedom by passing an unconstitutional spying bill that lets lawbreaking telecom companies off the hook.

These companies handed over huge amounts of information to the Bush administration, potentially millions of emails and phone calls and more, without getting a warrant.

Without enough public outcry, the Senate will let these phone companies off the hook and let Bush and future presidents keep spying on Americans without getting a warrant. Will you please help stop this horrendous bill?

Send an email to your senators now and help protect freedom this Independence Day.

Go to: http://action.aclu.org/july4taf

That is it.

THIS IS THE LAST YEAR I DO HOLIDAY CARDS.

In fact, I am going to quit mid way through, after having mailed out maybe half of them, and just send a bcc email to everyone I wanted to send cards to wishing them happy holidays.

Next year, I'll start out the right way from the beginning. Without any cards, and with every intention of saving money and trees and just emailing everyone. Almost everyone I know has email anyway.